Abundance and size of cutthroat trout at Baranof Lake, southeast Alaska, 1994
By: by John A. Der Hovanisian and Robert P. Marshall.
Contributors: Marshall, Robert P.; Alaska. Division of Sport Fish.
Series: Fishery data series -- no. 95-27.
Publisher: Alaska Dept. of Fish and Game, Division of Sport Fish, Research and Technical Services
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Anchorage
Language: eng
Number of pages: 21
Subjects: Cutthroat trout -- Alaska -- Baranof Lake -- Statistics.; Fishing -- Alaska -- Baranof Lake -- Statistics.; Fishery resources -- Alaska -- Baranof Lake -- Statistics.
Genres: Statistics.
Description: A two-event mark-recapture experiment was used to estimate abundance of a monospecific population of cutthroat trout Oncorhynchus clarki in Baranof Lake, Baranof Island, Southeast Alaska in 1994. The abundance of cutthroat trout 180 mm fork length was estimated at 12,186 (SE = 888). Abundance and density (38 fish per hectare) of fish 180 mm fork length are the highest of any large lake (i.e., Florence, Wilson, Hasselborg, and Turner lakes) carefully studied to-date in Southeast Alaska. Catch rate and length distribution of fish caught by two types of passive sampling gears in the lake were examined by time (summer sampling periods), area (ends and middle), and depth (10-m intervals) to better understand gear performance and fish distributions. Time, area, and depth were important factors. Larger fish were more common at shallow (010 m) depths in the spring, when spawning occurs. Also, we could detect no decline in CPUE of our sampling gears between 0 and 30-m depth in the lake. Length distributions of fish caught with hook-and-line gear in 1981 and 1994 showed that mean length of cutthroat trout caught in 1981 was greater than in 1994.
Notes: "November 1995".

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